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Rank and warfare among the Plains Indians by Bernard Mishkin Publisher Comments The Plains Indians have entered into American mythology as fierce nomadic warriors who cared more about personal honor than about the outcome of any larger conflict. This representation of them, so attractive because it supports the idea of nobility in... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lakota Myth by James R Walker Publisher Comments James R. Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. His accounts of this time, taken from his personal papers, reveal much about Lakota life and culture. This third volume of previously unpublished material from the Walker... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list People of the Dalles: The Indians of Wascopam Mission: A Historical Ethnography Based on the Papers of the Methodist Missionaries (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians) by Robert Boyd Publisher Comments People of The Dalles is the story of the Chinookan (Wasco-Wishram) and Sahaptin peoples of The Dalles area of the Columbia River, who encountered the Lewis & Clark expedition in 1805–6. The early history and culture of these communities is... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $37.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dreamers: On the Trail of the Nez Perce by Martin Stadius Publisher Comments Stevens Pass always has had an aura of mystery about it. Even while Seattle boomed during the great gold rush of the 1800s, there was no way to cross the formidable North Cascade Mountains. Inspired by potential Orient trade, railroaders spent years... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Indians of Texas: From Prehistoric to Modern Times by William Wil Newcomb Publisher Comments "Newcomb's book is likely to remain the best general work on Texas Indians for a long time." -- American Antiquity "The Indians of Texas, by W. W. Newcomb, Jr., is an excellent and long-needed survey of the ethnography of the Indian tribes who resided... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Indian Artifacts of the Midwest #01: Indian Artifacts of the Midwest by Lar Hothem Publisher Comments A collector's handbook loaded with all types of artifacts found in the Midwest, where the majority of Indian collectibles are discovered. Along with comprehensive text, this guide features hundreds of detailed photographs. 2001 values. 8.5 X 11.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Civilization of the American Indian #65: The Cherokees by Grace Stee Woodward Publisher Comments Of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians the Cherokees were early recognized as the greatest and the most civilized. Indeed, between 1540 and 1906 they reached a higher peak of civilization than any other North American Indian tribe. They invented a... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Desert Wife by Hilda Fau Wetherill Publisher Comments "This is the compelling narrative of the wife of an Indian trader in the desert wilderness of the Navajos before World War I. No other book about life at such trading posts equals its revealing portrayal of the land and the people, and its implication of... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sundancing: The Great Sioux Piercing Tradition by Thomas E Mails Publisher Comments Thomas E. Mails was the only white man ever invited to witness and photograph every phase of the sundance. Here Mails unveils this long-secret ritual through exclusive photographs, artwork, and participant testimonials.... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch Publisher Comments Jim Loney is a half-breed Indian living in a small Montana town. He's 35 years old, and he's slowly going mad. A compelling story of the modern American Indian, out of warpaint and costume, with no tribe and no home in nature or the cheap substitutes... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Native North American on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   American Indian Literature & Critical Studies #9: Faces in the Moon by Betty Louise Bell Publisher Comments "As my grandmother was dying, she told my mother, then nine years old, that she would always be watching her from the moon. And throughout her childhood, my mother sat on her back porch and waited for her mother's face to appear in the moon. Sometimes... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Last Algonquin by Theodore Kazimiroff Publisher Comments As recently as 1924, a lone Algonquin Indian lived quietly in Pelham Bay Park, a wild and isolated corner of New York City. Joe Two Trees was the last of his people, and this is the gripping story of his bitter struggle, remarkable courage, and constant... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by Robert J Conley Review "Cherokee history and legend form the basis for this collection of short stories. Whether set in the present or in the last century, all the stories deal with the dilemma of having to adapt to the white world while trying to retain cultural traditions... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $2.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When Rain Gods Reigned: From Curios to Art at Tesuque Pueblo by Duane Anderson Publisher Comments Despite at times being dismissed as tourist "kitsch, " Tesuque's popular rain god figurines have been continuously produced for more than 120 years, making them the longest-lasting figurative art tradition in the Southwest. What began in the 1880s as... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Indian History Five Centuries by Robert W Venables Publisher Comments Volume I: Conquest of a Continent, 1492-1783 begins by comparing and contrasting the different worldviews held by Indian and European nations as reflected in their philosophies and religions. It progresses to comprehensively document the contact... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women by Paula Gunn Allen Publisher Comments "Impressive....Haunting....Enchanting...Every story in the book, which covers nearly a century of tradition, is interesting, written with intelligent passion."<BR>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<BR>Native American scholar, literary critic... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Zuni Fetishes: Using Native American Sacred Objects for Meditation, Reflection, and Insight by Hal Zina Bennett Publisher Comments An informative and beautifully illustrated guide to the fetishes of the Zuni people of New Mexico. Also provides a guide to Zuni traditions and describes key fetish figures.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The dream seekers :Native American visionary traditions of the Great Plains by Lee Irwin Book News Annotation Irwin demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion. Drawing on 350 visionary dreams from sources spanning 150 years, he discusses the shared cosmological features for 23... (read more) Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list To Touch the Past by J J Brody Synopsis The Mimbres people of New Mexico are remembered for the arrestingly beautiful images they painted inside bowls 1,000 years ago. Here are their finest ceramics from the Weisman Art Museum, one of the world's largest collections, with the pottery's history;... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Navajos by Ruth Murr Underhill Review "No one will challenge her authority in descriptions of the cultural values and contributions of these Indians, and of their struggle today to maintain their economy in the face of encroachments of modernity. A fine book for all interested in American... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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